AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

• Participate in architecture discussions and review with various IT groups' technical, business, and use case requirements; ensure supportability requirements and standards are followed.
• Identify and develop new standards to maintain or improve stability and scalability of the current network environment with specific considerations to sustainability and future-proof design.
• Research and recommend innovative and automated approaches to configuration and applications that enable cloud-first architecture; identify approaches that leverage existing resources and provide economies of scale.
• Author documents that improve governance and librarianship with system-related architectures.
• Participate in all phases of development life-cycle environments including development, test, staging and production infrastructure systems, applications, servers and cloud services.
• Integrate cloud operations with legacy processes.
• Daily infrastructure services support, engineering and administration in multi-vendor environment.
• Manage relationships with vendor support of multiple systems to troubleshoot and investigate the root cause of performance and failure issues.
• Mentor and train peers on best practices and operations related issues.
• Actively participate in performance and high-availability planning.
• Provide guidance to team members in the daily support of various backup systems ensuring successful backups and test backups at regular intervals.
• Develop, maintain, and ensure processes, procedures, and troubleshooting guidelines.
• Improve performance of the systems by researching, evaluating and recommending new technology products and services.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Management Information System, Computer Science or related field of study from an accredited college or university. In lieu of degree, 5+ years of experience.
• 6+ years of professional experience in Linux administration, Windows Server administration in a multi-site domain and multi-trust forest, and virtualization technology, provisioning compute and storage resources; experience supporting and
• deploying Cloud computing services, including IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) deployments.
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.
• Experience with PowerShell.
• Practical experience with SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) and DevOps processes.
• Experience with Veeam Cloud Backups or other Enterprise class backup solutions.
• Experience with thin provisioning and thick provisioning best practices.
• Must be able to work evenings and weekends as needed.

Preferred

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) certification in MS Windows 2012 technologies.
• Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) Certifications.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certified.
• Azure Certifications.
• Experience working with DevOps and agile workflows.
• Experience with Okta for Identity Management.
• Experience working with Extra Hop, Wireshark, and other network troubleshooting tools.
• Previous experience developing, implementing, and operating large-scale, highly available environments through a public cloud provider (AWS services and technologies).

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Ability to stay current on knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications and white papers.
• Demonstrated ability to perform automation of services using AWS CloudFormation, Amazon EC2 Systems manager, AWS Config, AWS OpsWorks, AWS Service Catalog, AWS CodeDeploy.
• Skilled in determining how a system should work, changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Expert knowledge with AWS design, architecture and services (IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, AutoScaling, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, S3, Cloudwatch, Lambda, KMS, EKS, ElasticSearch, WAF, Secret Manager, Amazon Connect, etc.).
• Expert knowledge of Google Cloud Platform and services catalog.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes: build, run and maintain.
• In-depth understanding of Networks and Firewalls (Palo Alto NGFW).
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle and DevOps processes.
• Working intermediate knowledge of Linux CLI commands, SSH, and SCP.
• Knowledge of electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
• Ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, statistics, and their applications.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Ability to monitor systems for anomalies that require investigation and resolution.
• Intermediate knowledge of Active Directory and Windows domain environment.
• Advanced knowledge of backup and recovery systems using Symantec Backup Exec., Veeam, scripting and native backup applications.
• Intermediate knowledge of MS SQL service configuration and load balancing.
• Advanced knowledge of share and NTFS permissions.
• Understanding of general networking principles pertaining to a large enterprise WAN environment.
• Understanding of hardware associated with hosted solutions including switches and load balancers.
• Advanced knowledge of SAN and NAS technologies (iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, etc.).
• Ability to maintain an appropriate professional appearance and demeanor in accordance with Company policy.
• Ability to ensure compliance with Company policies, State, Federal and other regulatory bodies.